The Loneliest Places - Rachel Dickinson

The Loneliest Places

Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey Home
Buch | Softcover
248 Seiten
2022
Three Hills (Verlag)
978-1-5017-6609-1 (ISBN)
19,90 inkl. MwSt
"A child's suicide pitches you into a hellish place of fragmentary images, the deepest depression imaginable, efforts to destroy yourself, and an almost complete break with what's happening in the world around you. That was my experience. I wish it upon no one."



The essays of The Loneliest Places began as a chronicle of Rachel Dickinson's life after her son's suicide. The pieces became much more. Dickinson writes the unimaginable and terrifying facts of heartbreaking loss. In The Loneliest Places she tells stories from her months on the run, fleeing her grief and herself, as she escapes to Iceland and the Falkland Islands—as far as possible from the memories of her dead son, Jack. She frankly relates the paralyzing emotion that sometimes left her trapped in her home, confined to a single chair, helplessly isolated.



The tales from these years are bleak and Dickinson's journey home, back to her changed self and fractured family, is lonely. Conjuring Emily Dickinson, however, she describes how hope was sighted, allowed to perch, and then, remarkably, made actual.

Rachel Dickinson is a travel writer, essayist, artist, and award-winning author. Follow her on X @rachelbirds.

Beginning

Autumn, Again

One Night

Thoughts You Have While at Your Son's Funeral

Withdrawn

Running Away

Adirondack Anniversary

Clara and Jack Sing a Duet

Seeking Permission from Donald Hall

Thoughts

Guns in the Attic

The People Who Stayed

Train Robbers and Pinkertons

Hope Is a Strange Invention

Vertigo

Thrown for a Loop

Why I Stay

The Ways in Which I Fall

Rage

Let Me Be Frank

Angry at a Dead Son

The Gentle Arts

Mourning and Melancholia, Rejected

Travel

Pursuit of Aloneness

December Snow

Merry Effing Christmas

Learning to Travel

Give Up the Ghost

Birding on Bleaker Island

Speculation

Fictional World

What Would I Take If My House Was on Fire

The Time Tim Went to Cuba

Dreamworld

Going to the Spiritualist Camp

Searching

The Dude Ranch

Visitation

Searching for Home in Italy

The Pull of Water

Change

Minefields

Soft Edges

Called Back

Lonely

Jane at the End

The Other Jack Gallagher

Staying in a Ghost Town

Anticipation

Beside the Volcano

Comeuppance

Feeling Isolated

Tim Writes Me a Letter

The Truth about Selfishness

The Present

The Corncrake

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 13 Halftones, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-5017-6609-0 / 1501766090
ISBN-13 978-1-5017-6609-1 / 9781501766091
Zustand Neuware
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